Our events
Shaping Cyber Security 2025
The topic of our flagship conference was “Stronger Together: Cyber Capabilities for Vigilant Democracies” and the event took place in June 2025
Workshops
Check out the academic and policy workshops we organized.
Shaping Cybersecurity 2024
The topic of our flagship conferencewas “China’s Cyber Challenge – Strategic Competition in the Digital Age” and the event took place in June 2024.
Events
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Cyberattacks and information operations accompanying the Russian invasion of Ukraine have underlined the disruptive potential of digital technologies well beyond the immediate conflict zone. Already prior to the war, criminal cyberattacks against critical infrastructure have become major national security threats, heightening geopolitical tensions due to tacit or even active state support. Against the backdrop of…
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For the official opening of the IFSH research focus “International Cybersecurity”, the team around project leader Dr Mischa Hansel organised an event titled “With Zero Trust to Global Trust? International Cybersecurity in Light of the SolarWinds Attack”. More than 50 representatives from science, business, diplomacy, politics and the media took part in the interdisciplinary workshop. After an opening…
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IFSH research focus International Cybersecurity recently held its second interdisciplinary workshop, focusing on which actors and procedures could advance the implementation of the UN norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. The short presentations by Jacqueline Eggenschwiler (University of Oxford), Alexander Klimburg (Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace), Sheetal Kumar (Global Partners Digital) and Mischa Hansel (IFSH) shed…
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The harmful effects of cross-border criminal cyber-attacks were made abundantly clear as hospitals, energy providers, and other infrastructure services were indiscriminately hit or even directly targeted last year. Meanwhile, UN member states embarked on a new negotiation process with the goal of creating a global convention against the criminal misuse of information and communication technology.…
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End of June 2022 the ICS team conducted a workshop in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office on cyber security within the framework of the dialogue processes on the German National Security Strategy. The hybrid event centred on four thematic blocks, each introduced by short keynote speeches followed by discussions, and was held under Chatham…
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Vulnerabilities in hardware and software products are a gateway for cyber criminals, and state actors should thus be interested in promoting responsible disclosure and timely remediation. However, intelligence and security agencies also exploit vulnerabilities, sometimes holding vulnerabilities back or even actively seeking to acquire them. Thus, the role of state actors within the global vulnerability…
Archive
- Exploring Global Lessons in Cybersecurity
- ICS as part of the IFSH event format “Kurz Erklärt”
- Discussion Digital Threats and the Human Element: From EU Policies to Everyday Life
- Mateusz speaking on the risks of misusing LLMs
- Arms control in crisis: Technological and security challenges
- Webinar: Cyber-Operationen in den Kriegen in der Ukraine und im Gazastreifen
- Webinar at Nottingham Trent University
- Conference in King’s College in London
- Matthias at the symposium of Evangelic Church in Germany
- Our workshop on cybersecurity and cognitive warfare
- Shaping Cybersecurity 2025: „Stronger Together: Cyber Capabilities for vigilant Democracies”
- Webinar with the students of the University of Warsaw
- ICS at the German Forum Security Politics by BAKS
- Keynote speech at the Constitutional Club in New Delhi
- Keynote at the seminar organized by the Western Institute
- Preparations for Cyber Agora
- Keynote at the seminar organized by Gemeinschaft Katholischer Soldaten
- Participation in Friedenswerkstatt “Konflikte und Konfliktbearbeitung im digitalen Raum”
- Participation in Promotionskolleg “Sicherheit und Entwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert” seminar
- Shaping Cyber Security 2024: “China’s Cyber Challenge ” Strategic Competition in the Digital Age
- Shaping Cyber Security 2023: “Cyber in Conflict“ – Supporting Partners & Avoiding Escalation
- Kick-off Workshop on “Zero Trust”
- Workshop on the Implementation of UN Cyber Norms
- Workshop on Promises and Pitfalls of a Global Cybercrime Convention
- Workshop on the Cybersecurity Chapter of the German National Security Strategy
- Workshop on Government Vulnerability Disclosure